The holiday season is coming around and that means some extra pounds are going to be coming with it. The helpful people at Apple are already on the case though and are helping us be food and health conscious with some useful health and fitness apps for your iPhone 3G.

Take a look at some of the apps that caught our eye:

RunKeeper

This is one of the earlier fitness applications from the iPhone Apps store and it remains to be one of the most reliable. This app runs with the built-in GPS system to track your running stands and can even store your results on runkeeper.com to view your progress. The app can be applied to all sort of exercising stats such as biking or hiking. This app is great for serious and hobby runners alike.

Restaurant Nutrition

Do you ever wonder what you’re really eating when you chomp into that quarter pounder? If you’re not too afraid to find out then the Restaurant Nutrition App may be the one for you. Browse through nutritional stats and info for 37 different American restaurant chains. Also keep logs of what you’ve been eating and add up your nutritional totals as you record them. Frightening, but maybe what you need to keep a few pounds off. This is especially useful for those of us who’ve been indulging a bit too much in the limited edition holiday happy meals.

iFitness

iFitness is a great app designed to help you through work out routines and design fitness programs for yourself. Make selections of what parts of your body you want to work out and then iFitness will guide you through exercises that will help you get toned. There are also preset routines for people new to the work out world, but you can design your own to suit your needs.

Weightbot

This is an extremely simple and beautiful looking app. The main feature of the Weightbot is to track your weight gains and losses. Once you start up for the first time you enter your height, your current weight and your goal weight. Then enter your information each day and it will show you your progress. It also calculates your body mass index automatically.

Fitview

This app is a great all in one data tracker which lets you keep tabs on a multitude of your fitness info. Track your work out times, weight, calories, cholesterol and much more. The app also provides charts that monitor your recorded activities. The amount of information that Fitview can handle is quite remarkable and any seasoned gym junky will find this app very useful.

The torrent is nothing new to the Apple iPhone 3G,  but starting those torrents has not been the most convenient thing to do. That is until now. Up until now when you wanted to start a torrent on your iPhone you had to take the torrent url and manually type it into your iPhone UI. This could all be solved with a simple cut and paste feature but because the iPhone OS does not support something so ridiculous *Ahem Apple* some clever people had to come up with a clever solution.

That solution is uTorrent webAPP. This handy app allows you to browse through torrents on isoHunt’s JSON interface and add them to your download queues at the tap of a touch screen. The app bypasses the pesky typing of the torrent url by pushing the address directly to your iPhone uTorrent app.

The process works by entering your IP address and port into the fields at louish.com/iphone and once you have the uTorrent WebUI install on your local PC coupled with the iPhone GUI addon you can browse torrents with ease. Just click on the torrent you want and push it up for downloads. Initial testings appear to be secure and the ease of adding torrents, viewing download progress, stopping and starting downloads has never been easeir.

Try picking up this handy application and let us know what you think.